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			<h1>A master&apos;s degree in business</h1>
			<p>Day 00666: Sunday, 2017 January 01</p>
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<h2 id="general">General news</h2>
<p>
	I was too tired to get much done today.
	I had a closing shift last night and an opening shift this morning, which means that there wasn&apos;t time to get enough sleep.
	Add that to the fact that I&apos;m sick and need more sleep than usual, and I had to take a long nap after work.
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<p>
	Three nights ago, fifty dollars went missing from my register.
	That was stressful, but the next night, I asked and was told that the money had been found in the safe.
	Someone had miscounted the money when removing it from the till.
	However, that same night that I found that everything was fine, sixty dollars went missing from my register.
	It wasn&apos;t in the safe (the head manager checked at least three times before I left, and it couldn&apos;t be accounted for.
	I was sent home with the register tape to try to figure out what had happened.
	That was a futile effort on my part.
	The next night though (yesterday), once again, the money was found, though I&apos;m not sure where.
	What the heck? Why does money keep disappearing from the register that makes <strong>*me*</strong> look guilty.
	I&apos;m not sure how I would have handled it emotionally if that&apos;d happened again last night, but this time, all the money was where it should be.
</p>
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	My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
</p>
<h2 id="university">University life</h2>
<p>
	I&apos;ve been putting most of my school progress in my <a href="/en/coursework/BUS1101/#Unit8">learning journal</a> this week, but the learning journal doesn&apos;t feel like the right place to put my discussion board posts.
	I feel like it would annoy the professor.
	With that in mind, I&apos;m putting my discussion posts here in my regular journal as usual.
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
	I work at a fast food restaurant.
	We try to get everyone&apos;s orders correct, but we&apos;re only human, so mistakes happen.
	We value customers and believe that they&apos;re more likely to return if we do our best to fix our mistakes.
	Part of our culture is to try to get repeat business, so we try to make our customers happy even when their order is wrong.
	One way that we do that is my replacing any order that we fill incorrectly.
	We don&apos;t make customers jump through a lot of hoops, so it&apos;s very easy for customers to complain and get new food.
	This is one of our strengths, as it keeps customers from getting even madder at us like they would if getting their orders replaced was made more difficult.
</p>
<p>
	However, this is also one of our weaknesses.
	Sometimes, scammers hit us up for gratis food by making false complains.
</p>
<p>
	The main artifacts that you can see of this culture are our policy of replacing the order of any customer that complains and our pinned stack of gratis item tickets.
	When a customer comes in with a complaint but doesn&apos;t want the replacement right away, we write up a ticket for them and pin it up with the rest of the gratis item tickets written up for other customers.
	That way, we know who we still have left to provide gratis items to.
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<p>
	University of the People only offers three fields of study: business administration, computer science, and health science.
	They offer associate&apos;s and bachelor&apos;s degrees in all three fields.
	However, they only offer master&apos;s degrees in business administration.
	If I wish to seek a master&apos;s degree from this school, I&apos;m going to have to switch fields.
	Obviously, I&apos;m not going to do that though.
	Or am I? It seems that while a bachelor&apos;s degree is required for admission into the master&apos;s degree program, that bachelor&apos;s degree need not be in a business-related field.
	In other words, I may continue with my computer science degree while still preparing for a master&apos;s degree from this school, should I choose to.
	So what does that mean for me? Well, to get into the master&apos;s degree program, I also need to have taken seven courses that I wouldn&apos;t have taken for a Bachelor of Computer Science degree that I would have if I&apos;d gone with a Bachelor of Business administration.
	Furthermore, I need two years of full-time work experience before I can be admitted.
	The courses that I need are as follows:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>BUS 1102: Basic Accounting <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
	<li>BUS 1103: Microeconomics <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
	<li>BUS 1104: Macroeconomics <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
	<li>BUS 2201: Principles of Marketing <em>(proctored course)</em> <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
	<li>BUS 2203: Principles of Finance 1 <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
	<li>BUS 4402: Organization Behavior <em>(proctored course)</em> <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
	<li>BUS 4403: Business Policies &amp; Strategies <em>(proctored course)</em> <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>
	If we arrange those in terms of prerequisites, we get this:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>BUS 1101: Principles of Business Management<ul>
		<li>BUS 1102: Basic Accounting <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong><ul>
			<li>BUS 2203: Principles of Finance 1 <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
		</ul></li>
		<li>BUS 1103: Microeconomics <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
		<li>BUS 1104: Macroeconomics <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
		<li>BUS 2201: Principles of Marketing <em>(proctored course)</em> <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong><ul>
			<li>BUS 2207: Multinational Management<ul>
				<li>BUS 4403: Business Policies &amp; Strategies <em>(proctored course)</em> <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong><span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
			</ul></li>
		</ul></li>
		<li>BUS 4402: Organization Behavior <em>(proctored course)</em> <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong></li>
		<li>BUS 3306: Business and Society<ul>
			<li>BUS 4403: Business Policies &amp; Strategies <em>(proctored course)</em> <strong>(must score 2.67/4.0 or higher)</strong><span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
		</ul></li>
	</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>
	That adds two more courses to the list of what&apos;s required before entering the master&apos;s degree program because of the prerequisites.
	I think that I found what I want to put my elective credits towards: preparing for my master&apos;s degree! I may decide not to get a master&apos;s degree in business administration, but it doesn&apos;t hurt to prepare in case I decide that this is the right path for me.
	If only the university&apos;s glitches didn&apos;t burn one of my elective slots already, as I already don&apos;t have enough.
	But wait, this is where it gets good.
	While I don&apos;t directly need to take <span title="Principles of Business Management">BUS 1101</span> before entering the master&apos;s degree program, I <strong>*do*</strong> need to take that course as a prerequisite for literally <strong>*all*</strong> of the courses that I don&apos;t need for my bachelor&apos;s degree but that I&apos;ll need to take before entering the master&apos;s degree program.
	Strangely, though it wasn&apos;t my intent, this new plan retroactively makes <span title="Principles of Business Management">BUS 1101</span> the right course for me to have been in all along.
	Yay? The degree itself consists of twelve courses.
	Their prerequisite tree is tangled and convoluted though:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>BUS 5110: Managerial Accounting<ul>
		<li>BUS 5111: Financial Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
			<li>BUS 5115: Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
				<li>BUS 5114: Management Information Systems and Technology<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
				<li>BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
			</ul></li>
			<li>BUS 5116: Operations Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
				<li>BUS 5114: Management Information Systems and Technology<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
				<li>BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
			</ul></li>
		</ul></li>
		<li>BUS 5112: Marketing Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
			<li>BUS 5115: Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
				<li>BUS 5114: Management Information Systems and Technology<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
				<li>BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
			</ul></li>
			<li>BUS 5116: Operations Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
				<li>BUS 5114: Management Information Systems and Technology<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
				<li>BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
			</ul></li>
		</ul></li>
	</ul></li>
	<li>BUS 5113: Organization Theory and Behavior<ul>
		<li>BUS 5111: Financial Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
			<li>BUS 5115: Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
				<li>BUS 5114: Management Information Systems and Technology<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
				<li>BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
			</ul></li>
			<li>BUS 5116: Operations Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
				<li>BUS 5114: Management Information Systems and Technology<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
				<li>BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
			</ul></li>
		</ul></li>
		<li>BUS 5112: Marketing Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
			<li>BUS 5115: Business Law, Ethics and Social Responsibility<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
				<li>BUS 5114: Management Information Systems and Technology<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
				<li>BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
			</ul></li>
			<li>BUS 5116: Operations Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
				<li>BUS 5114: Management Information Systems and Technology<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
				<li>BUS 5117: Strategic Decision Making and Management<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span><ul>
					<li>BUS 5910: Management Capstone<span title="Multiple prerequisites required">***</span></li>
				</ul></li>
			</ul></li>
		</ul></li>
	</ul></li>
</ul>
<ul>
	<li>Any three of these:<ul>
		<li>BUS 5211: Managing in the Global Economy</li>
		<li>BUS 5411: Leading in Today&apos;s Dynamic Contexts</li>
		<li>BUS 5511: Human Resource Management</li>
		<li>BUS 5611: Managing Projects and Programs</li>
	</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>
	I&apos;ll probably integrate this new information with my existing course requirement tree when time allows.
	The master&apos;s degree is too far in the future to add to my tree just yet, as it requires having found a full-time job, but the information on prerequisites has narrowed down my choices in electives for my associate&apos;s and bachelor&apos;s degrees.
	Taking more business courses is probably going to hurt though, I&apos;m not going to lie.
	I don&apos;t have the right mind for it.
	However, if I plan to run my own business at some point (which would prevent me from having to work for an unethical company), these courses could come very much in handy.
</p>
<h2 id="apartment">Apartment hunting</h2>
<p>
	I got a lead today about a property manager that might be able to rent to me: Emerald Property Management.
	I have a name, but not an address.
	I also got a lead a couple days ago, though I have a street corner to find them on, but no name.
	When this term at school ends, I need to look into both options and submit applications if I&apos;m able to meet their requirements.
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